Rain Dampens France Fire, as Spain Reports 'Almost No Flames'
Rain helped slow France’s Bordeaux blaze as authorities in Spain said fires near Madrid had nearly stopped expanding.
- The wildfire west of Madrid has stopped expanding with "almost no flames left," authorities said, after the blaze destroyed at least 100 homes and burnt 27,000 hectares since last week.
- Meanwhile, a blaze in Avila has reached around 50,000 hectares, marking Spain's largest fire since 1961, while a new fire in Fermoselle forced the evacuation of more than 600 people on Wednesday.
- Rain on Thursday near Bordeaux raised hopes for containment of a fire that has ravaged 42,000 hectares, with regional firefighting services describing themselves as "reasonably optimistic."
- Authorities allowed some of the 220,000 displaced people to return home; by Thursday morning, only a thousand evacuees remained in the region.
- Scientists attribute successive heatwaves and major drought this year to human-caused climate change, prompting residents like Uber driver Kevin Montmartre to reconsider living in fire-prone Andernos-les-Bains.
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The risk of fire remains "very high, if not extreme", and another fire to the west is of concern to the authorities.
The authorities report successes from two forest fire areas in France and Spain. At Bordeaux, a further 84,000 people are allowed to return to their homes. At the same time, new fires are blazing in other regions.
France firefighters hopeful, as Spain reports 'almost no flames'
Europe has been gripped by successive heatwaves and a major drought this year, which scientists have attributed to human-caused climate change. The neighbouring countries have been gripped by some of the worst forest fires in living memory over the past week, burning vast areas and forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes. In France, a little rain fell on Thursday near the wine capital of Bordeaux, raising hopes that an end to the f…
However, the current heat wave in the country poses the threat of a renewed fire in this area west of Madrid, which has seen more than 25,000 hectares of smoke.
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